''My Dog Is Lost'' is a 1960
children's picture book by American author and illustrator
Ezra Jack Keats. ''My Dog is Lost'' was Keats' first attempt at authoring a children's book. Keats has authored and/or illustrated more than 85 books for children.
Synopsis of story
Juanito and his family have just moved from
Puerto Rico to
New York City and he is miserable because he only speaks Spanish. Juanito has no one to talk with, and his dog Pepito is missing. Juanito realizes that his neighbors won't understand the Spanish passage - "Mi perro se ha perdido", so he goes to the bank and asks a man there to help him make a sign in English. Suddenly, the search is on as he and different children from all over New York help him search through
Chinatown
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,
Little Italy,
Park Avenue and
Harlem to find his lost dog, Pepito.
See also
* Ezra Jack Keats
* Children's picture book
References
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External links
Ezra Jack Keats website
1960 children's books
American picture books
Books by Ezra Jack Keats